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Teaser

Men and women crawl on their bellies up a dusty, adobe-lined desert road. A Mercedes stops alongside the crawling sacrificial procession. Two men exit the car; both wear well-cut suits and cowboy boots tipped with silver skulls. They look so alike, they might be brothers, even twins, but we will come to know them as "the Cousins."
They too begin to crawl with the others. The procession winds to a candlelit shrine to Santa Muerte, a skulled Mexican deity representing death. The two men rise to their feet. One makes an offering; the other pins something to the shrine: a crude sketch of Heisenberg.

Behind the White family home, a contrite Walter White dumps his ill-gotten gains onto the grill and sets it ablaze. Seconds later, he doubts his decision and hurls the flaming grill into the pool. His robe sleeve having caught fire, he too jumps in after.

Skyler White, meanwhile, meets with a divorce attorney who advises her that maintaining residence in the family home will strengthen her custody position. Skyler explains that Walt is moving out that day. Questioned about the family's finances, Skyler momentarily freezes. "You'd be amazed what I've seen partners hide from one another," the lawyer says.

Hank Schrader arrives to help with the move just as Walt fishes the last of the cash — and the eyeball belonging to the pink teddy bear from the crash — out of his pool. Wrestling a duffel bag full of drug money away from his brother-in-law, Hank asks, "What have you got in there? Cinder blocks?" After a thought, "Half a million in cash," Walt replies. Hank laughs, and congratulates his keeping a sense of humour.

Jesse learning self-acceptance at rehab

Jesse Pinkman, still at the rehab facility, and after a touch of gardening, listens silently as the group leader describes self-acceptance and a desire for self-improvement as essential to transformation.

The next day, Walt calls home from his new apartment. Walter White Jr. picks up the phone. "Nobody's telling me jackshit around here," he complains. Over Skyler's objections, Walter Jr. arranges for Walt to drive him to school.

Later at his apartment, Walt receives a one-word text: "POLLOS."

At a school assembly, due to the recent disaster, Walt fidgets while students and faculty talk about the crash. "Jesus H. Christ," he grumbles, when a student describes, finding on his lawn, a lone plane seat with a pair of severed legs still buckled in. Hearing this, Carmen encourages Walt to express himself. "Look on the bright side," he tells the incredulous audience: The death toll could have been much higher than it was, describing various worse disasters through history. "People move on and survive," he suggests. Carmen, finding his words somewhat inappropriate, takes back the mike and cuts him short.

The Cousins

Outside a dilapidated desert farmhouse, the Cousins approach a clothesline. A young girl and her parents watch as the men exchange their well-cut suits for worn work clothes, keeping only their guns and their distinctive boots. They deposit the keys to their Mercedes on a goat's horn, and walk away.

Inside, Walter Jr. screams at Skyler, "Why do you gotta treat him like this?" Marie Schrader says Walter Jr. is probably "dying of curiosity" about the cause of his parents' separation. "I can't help you get through this," she adds, "if you won't tell me what it is that Walt did." Skyler tells her sister that she needs to be supportive without prying.

During a campfire rehab session, Jesse, despondent with the 'pep talks', asks the group leader, "Have you ever really hurt anybody?" He's shocked to hear the leader reveal, "I killed my daughter!" High on coke and booze, he accidentally struck his daughter with his car. "How do you not hate yourself?" asks Jesse. "I did, for many years," admits the group leader. But guilt and self-hate, he explains, stand in the way of true change.

Skyler visits Walt's apartment and surprises Walt with divorce papers. "We are happily married — I am happily married," contends Walt. "You're a drug dealer," Skyler accuses. Walter is taken aback, then unthinkingly starts with "How...", but corrects himself and asks "What?". Drawing a connection with "that Pinkman kid," Skyler accuses Walt of dealing marijuana. From his stumped silence she reads it's even worse than she feared, "Cocaine?" she questions appalled.

"Methamphetamine. I'm a manufacturer. I'm not a dealer, per se," Walt finally admits. "There are a lot of angles to this," he says, but Skyler refuses to hear him out. She promises not to tell Hank or anyone else what Walt is doing — but only if he grants the divorce and stays away from the kids. "Let me the hell out of here before I throw up," she says as she runs out the door.

A preoccupied Walt picks up Jesse at rehab

Walt picks up Jesse from rehab. "I'm done using," Jesse says. He intimates that the plane crash was his fault because grief distracted Jane's dad.

"You are not responsible for this," Walt insists. Radar malfunction was reported, he explains, and air-traffic control technology is antiquated. "You either run from things, or you face them," Jesse replies. He's learned to accept who he is: "I'm the bad guy."

Walt and Gus at Los Pollos Hermanos

Walt visits Los Pollos Hermanos and meets with Gustavo Fring. Despite his great respect for Gus, Walt has decided to stop cooking meth. "I am not a criminal," he explains, "but no offense" he adds. Gus offers Walt $3 million for three months of work. "I have money, more than I can spend" Walt says, declining. "What I don't have is my family."

The Cousins, hidden amid a farm truck's bales of straw, sit with others sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas. A young man brags to the Cousins about painting cars for Michoacan gangsters, but quickly clams up when he notices the skulls on their boots.

Shots sound; the driver stops the truck to investigate, then flees. The Cousins emerge from the bales and shoot the driver. The two set the truck and its murdered passengers ablaze. They walk away as the vehicle is engulfed in flames.

"No Más" is Spanish for "no more", Walt's current stance on his meth-cooking.

In the scene in which Walt decides to burn his money, Bryan Cranston is literally on fire before he jumps in the pool.

Following the devastating plane crash the city of ABQ is in a state of grief. Seemingly all the characters are depicted in this episode wearing the blue ribbon in support of the victims. All except Walter White and Jr.. Illustrating Jr's desire for closeness with his father after Skyler kicks him out. And illustrating Walt's desire to wash his hands of it as justification.

In the scene where the cousins blew up the truck, the footage of the explosion was filmed from far away using a long-focus lens. This had the effect of shallowing the perspective, and making the explosion appear much closer to the actors than it really was. They did it all in one take, and literally set the truck ablaze.

Featured Music

"The Cousins" by Dave Porter (during the episode teaser and when the cousins change their clothes)